We all know that making the choice to start smoking is most often an adolescent’s decision made in response to peer-pressure: teenagers wanting to appear cool, independent, sophisticated and glamorous to their friends.

Anti-smoking commercials always seem to be directed at teens. I remember from my younger days, “Just say no” was a popular catch-phrase. Today, I can turn my television to any random station and, sooner rather than later, I am going to run across an anti-tobacco advertisement. They seem to pop up every five minutes.

Anti-smoking ads have been increasingly graphic, even gruesome, in the past several years. These ads show teens, toddlers, even babies with sad faces, crying, or surrounded by clouds of smoke. They show an old man in a wheelchair, with tubes coming out of his throat, just so he can breathe.

But do all these advertisements really matter?

In an article by Dr. Mark Clayson, Anti-Smoking Ads, Clayson points out, “Anti smoking ads are more effective as a preventive measure for those who have not yet tried smoking. If the organizations behind the anti smoking ads are well able to orient young kids early on the harmful effects of smoking and make their presence more known way before cigarette campaigns start to tempt them to pick up the habit, they will be more likely to succeed in protecting the younger generations, if not to totally make the older ones realize how detrimental smoking really is.”(1) So if the anti-smoking ads are more effective on younger children, I wonder if there is a difference if that child’s parent(s) smokes or not.

My parents smoked when I was younger, but quit before I reached my adolescent years. I started smoking when I was fifteen years old. I wouldn’t say that my parents smoking had anything to do with why I started smoking. Thinking back, I would have to say the reason I started smoking was because my friends where smoking. Fast-forward seventeen years, and I am still smoking....

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...Book Summary: The Rock Says…
The Rock Says…
by Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Joe Layden
HarperEntertainment; First Edition edition, January 5, 2000
Tucker’s Rating: 4 / 10
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What’s it about?: The first autobiography of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, written when he was only a professional wrestler.
Tucker’s Opinion: Let me be very clear that I have an immense amount of respect for The Rock, as an entertainer, an athlete, and a person. But this book is just a paint-by-numbers celebrity memoir that was put out as a cash grab when wrestling books were selling really well. It took nothing more than a few days of speaking into microphone for The Rock, and maybe two or three weeks of writing for the co-author to churn out. Beyond that, he was 27 years old when it was published–it is exceedingly rare for anyone that age to have anything to say. If you aren’t a huge Rock fan, there is no reason to read this book. And even if you are a huge fan…I still don’t see much of a reason to read this book.
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...one that caught my attention was the poem by William Carlos Williams, “This is Just to Say”. This poem was so short and so simple but seemed to be so much more than what it really is.
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I have intended that this note was left for a lover because they have made the plums the center piece of the poem. Fruits in general are an exotic and forbidden form of love and they use the plums in a seductive way to the reader. I came to the generalization that the plums were not edible for the fact that the last ten words in the poem are; “forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold”; the sender of the poem is pleading for forgiveness for the fact of eating the frozen plums. Also the fact, that the plums were in an icebox so sweet and so cold it feels as if they were not meant for eating.
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Monsoons: seasonal prevailing wind in the region of South and SouthEast Asia, blowing from the southwest between May and September and bringing rain (wet monsoon) or from the northeast between Octobver and April (dry)
Vinta: canoe that made it possible for the voyage—migration of the Filipinos into the archipelago
Laguna Copperplate: first written records; debt to King of Tondo; SE Asian/Hindu script; evidence of cultural links between Classical Tagalog People and the various contemporary Asian civilization
Sultanate of Sulu: Parts of Mindanao, Borneo, and Sulu Sea—1457-1915 (Mahkdum Karim—Muslim Missionary from Se Asia)
Big Rats Poem: book of songs, important to China’s emperor to know how the people were feeling and so they would send people out from the court into the countryside to hear what the people were singing
Oracle Poem: initially writing used to ask questions of gods; eventually becomes Chinese writing system
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